Let’s find a new word, since “apartheid” gives such offence. No two systems are ever alike, after all. No less an authority than Benjamin Pogrund points out indignantly, as he makes his distinctions, that in apartheid South Africa all races shared the same roads.*

So I’m game. Come up with a different name or term that captures everything that I have described. I’ll use it instead of “apartheid.” Promise. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so I’m not going to insist on one signifier if another will do.

Maybe we can move the debate along without being diverted by semantics. The floor is open.